Aristotle Quotes on Life
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If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.
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One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
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Change in all things is sweet.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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Happiness is a sort of action.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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'We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.'